Types of Attachment

Question 1

Describe Secure Attachment

Answer 1

-made up 70% of infants.
-Infants with this attachment type displayed moderate separation and stranger anxiety and were able to use their parents as a secure base. - - quickly comforted on reunion.

Question 2

Insecure Avoidant

Answer 2

happy to explore without using their caregiver as a secure base and showed little response to being left or comforted by their caregiver and had no reaction to the stranger when left with them.
- They showed little reaction when the parent returned in the reunion. This attachment type made up around 15% of the results.

Question 3

Insecure resistant

Answer 3

• last 15% of the results. This attachment type is characterised by infants who both seek and resist social interactions.
  -When left, these infants displayed instant and intense distress and had the same reaction to the stranger in the room.
  -When the caregiver returned to the room, the infants would resist being comforted but would seek contact with their caregiver in other ways they displayed an ambivalent reaction.